Kristin Dykstra’s translations and critical introductions will be featured in three bilingual editions of contemporary Cuban poetry forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press:  Other Letters to Milena, by Reina María Rodríguez; Breach of Trust, by Ángel Escobar; and The Counterpunch (And Other Horizontal Poems), by Juan Carlos Flores.  She received a 2012 NEA Fellowship for Literary Translation to complete the collection Catch and Release, by Rodríguez (Cuba).  Dykstra previously translated several books of poetry from Cuba, including works by Omar Pérez and Rodríguez.  She co-edits Mandorla:  New Writing from the Americas with Roberto Tejada and Gabriel Bernal Granados and is Professor of English at Illinois State University.  While on leave from ISU she is Scholar-in-Residence at St. Michael’s College of Vermont.